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Background: The first International Consensus Conference for Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC1) took place 10 years ago in November 2011. The rationale was – and still is – to standardize treatment of advanced breast cancer (ABC) based on the available evidence and to ensure that worldwide all breast cancer patients receive adequate treatment and access to new therapies. Rationale for the Manuscript: The 6th International Consensus Conference for ABC (ABC6) took place from November 4 to 6, 2021 and was the first in a purely online format, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the present manuscript, a working group of German breast cancer experts comments on the voting results of the ABC6 panelists regarding their applicability for routine clinical practice in Germany. Method: The ABC6 votes mainly include modified or new statements. With regard to all statements not modified for the ABC6 consensus, the German experts refer to the published paper of the ABC5 consensus. The German experts base their comments on the current recommendations of the Breast Committee of the Gynecological Oncology Working Group (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynäkologische Onkologie, AGO Mamma). Topics: ABC6 focused on new treatment options and their implications for clinical practice. Optimal therapy sequencing for example was one of the issues. To solve the challenge of a more individualized treatment, precision medicine is fundamental. Oligometastatic disease, brain metastases and adequate supportive and palliative care were also addressed. Of special interest was the treatment of inoperable locally advanced breast cancer, which was discussed as a separate topic. As in previous years, patient advocates from around the world were an integral part of the ABC6 conference and had a major input into the consensus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Obesity is a chronic disease, in which treatment outcomes are highly dependent on patient and family adherence to behavioural recommendations. The role of healthy eating, physical activity, medication adherence as well as adherence to pre- and post-bariatric surgery protocols are of utmost importance for long-term treatment outcomes. Even the best interventions are not likely to reach their maximum benefit without significant levels of adherence on the part of the individual and family. Traditionally, the annual meeting of the European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG) includes an expert workshop addressing one specific topic within the field of childhood obesity. During the 30th annual meeting, hosted by the University of Pécs, Hungary, as a virtual meeting, "adherence to treatment recommendations in obesity as a chronic disease" was addressed. The discussions that developed during the workshop are summarized in the following article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Asian Pacific Stroke Organization (APSO) and the Taiwan Stroke Society (TSS) are pleased to have this year's Asia Pacific Stroke Conference (APSC) in conjunction with the annual meeting of TSS in Kaohsiung, Taiwan [[1]]. APSO was established through the merger of the Asia Pacific Stroke Association and Asian Stroke Forum in 2009, and sessions under the name of APSO were held at the 2010 World Stroke Conference in Seoul [[2]]. Successful APSCs every year will make academic progress and care quality improvement in the Asia-Pacific region, ultimately helping our stroke patients. [Extracted from the article]

Treating neuro and psychiatric issues is one of the key challenges of our time. Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19), two research orientations, neurological manifestations and psychiatric status of patients with COVID-19 and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have become emerging research hot spots in recent years. To overcome the enormous burden caused by neurological and psychiatric disorders worldwide, this collection of meeting abstracts intends to bring all enthusiastic contributors of this domain to investigate the best neurological practices and the very recent psychiatry study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstracts of the International Conference on Neurology and Epidemiology 2022 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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